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Hating the alienVVLTRFTW. RE: Lobster Daddy. I think your point regarding Modern Warfare et al. is well taken, in fact I recently decided to stop playing any games set in a current theatre of war. Violent conflict is an historical fact, but games like Modern Warfare are taking a political stance, unintentional though it may be, and reinforce an insular ‘us and them’ attitude.I’m certainly not in favour of censorship, but the highly simplified good guy/bad guy attitude typified in games which are reflecting very real, complex life and death issues leaves a bad taste in my mouth.We all need heroes and we all love a villainous bad guy, but prescribing these roles to actual people, countries and cultures is distasteful. Halo: Reach may not be as accomplished a first person shooter as the next Modern Warfare game, but context within a game seems to be an ever increasing factor in my buying habits – I’ll stick to shooting aliens and daemons thanks.Crimson RookPS: Loving the new site GC!RE: Paul Wainwright. Relax fella! It’s just a game. If you don’t like the setting don’t buy it. Problem solved.AndiSteamy suggestionsA very big thank you for the Xbox Indie round-up. I think the atmosphere created in Decay looks more interesting than the entirety of Alan Wake ‘s efforts. Could you offer any suggestions for indie games on Steam, as there are quite a few titles on that service too.RandyTandyGC:We do try to highlight particularly notable games on Steam, when there’s the opportunity.Puzzle Dimensionwas a good recent one, and although flawedAlien Swarmwas at least free. As with any indie games though we also look to readers to make their own recommendations via Inbox.Indie TraderTried a few of your Xbox Indie recommendations and there’s some really good stuff in there. Ancient Trader is my favourite so far – a really fun, old school strategy game. Probably my favourite since Advance Wars. I really like the old map style art as well. A great little game that you’d never see anywhere else on a console.Septimus

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Weird preferenceRE: Gregor120. I’ve had the slim Xbox 360 since release day and no breakdown yet. All that talk of whisper quiet was rubbish, after a long session it’s still loud. The Wi-Fi is great though. I actually have this one standing vertical, but all my others I had horizontally don’t know why, guess I like the way it looks (weird).hairyfingernail (gamertag)/hairytoenail (PSN ID)Add me!I find the HDMI socket is a bit dodgy on mine if the console is moved a little bit, it loses signal to TV. Have to wiggle it about a bit, (cable) to rectify, have tried other cables. Also has frozen a couple of times and had to reset. Like the ‘ding’ on the disc tray mind you.Stephen CrawfordArms of a strangerI’ve just given away my old Xbox. It was a real wrench to part with the games so I kept my favourites to play on my Xbox 360, but was gutted to find Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath isn’t compatible. Let’s hope the new owner gets as much out of it as I did.newtonbasePrescient magicI read that Gas: Fuel For Destruction, the sequel to Mashed (one of the best multiplayer games ever!) is out this year, but i wondered if you knew when it is out as I can’t find a release date. I hope it hasn’t been cancelled!robbiejmasterGC:In a timely example of Inbox magic thedevelopment blogwas updated for the first time on Monday. It’s called GAS: Fuel For Fun now and still seems to be on course for release on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation network.Edutainment in actionI am trying to learn Spanish and would like to combine this with my gaming. Can you (or any readers) recommend any games with text/speech in Spanish that are available? Obviously the games would have to be fairly slow – probably point and click adventures.KeithGC:We always wondered if this would work. Most games indicate what language they’re in on the back of the box so try and pick one with a lot of text. It’d be easier if there were more Spanish developers, but the only really notable ones are MercurySteam (Clive Barker’s Jericho) and Pyro Strudios (Commandos). There’s also Péndulo Studios who do the graphic adventure series Runaway. They’re not particuarly good but at least they won’t suffer from any dodgy translations.Never go backRE: RandyTandy. For really good quality PlayStation 2 gaming get a component cable – you can pick one up off Amazon for less than £5. Make sure your TV has a component input which it should do being a HDTV. If not the next best thing would by an RGB cable. Either of these are vastly superior to the standard composite cable out the box or an S-video cable.Trust me, the results are amazing. After I first tried an RGB cable on my PlayStation 2 I couldn’t believe I never tried it before. You won’t want to go back to standard cables ever again.Thanks GameCentral. Loving the move to Metro. The website is looking really good.HalberdierInbox also-ransI want the summer games drought to go on for longer. I haven’t finished Demon’s Souls yet!BiffAnyone else finding it really hard to get a game on Monster Hunter Tri now? I guess it wasn’t much of a hit after all.BoyceUFC Undisputed must be the most homoerotic game ever. Not that there’s anything wrong with that of course.Mr DarcyI want to be a hand doctor when I grow up.Jim WalksThis week’s Hot TopicWith last week’s announcement of Batman: Arkham City and Marvel games such as Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Thor and Avengers waiting in the wings this week’s Hot Topic is all about superhero games.We want to know why you think so many of them have been poor quality and where developers are going wrong. What would be your dream superhero (or other comic book character) game and how would it work?Do superhero games need to stick closer to the source material or are they better off when they invent their characters, like inFamous or Prototype? Are there any specific powers that you think still haven’t been done well?E-mail your comments to:gamecentral@ukmetro.co.uk

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